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Fair Lawn NJ, plans for a new groundwater treatment system that will remove toxic substances 1,4-dioxane, PFOA and PFOS from four closed Fair Lawn wells is moving forward, with full completion slated for 2025.
The treatment system will clean up a Superfund site at Westmoreland Well Field, which is west of Route 208 and has contaminated groundwater from chemicals leaching from a nearby industrial park decades ago.
Fair Lawn shut down the four wells at the Superfund site in 2016 after tests showed high concentrations of 1,4-dioxane, a “likely carcinogen” that can also cause liver and kidney damage. Once complete, the new groundwater treatment system will remove volatile organic compounds, 1,4-dioxane, PFOA and PFOS from the water supply.
The good news is that taxpayers will not fund the project. The full cost is being covered by Sandvik Inc. and Thermo Fisher Scientific, the companies that are responsible for the investigation and cleanup of the site. The companies will continue to pay for operations and maintenance of the treatment system under a long-term agreement with Fair Lawn, even after the borough regains ownership and operation of the site in 2025.
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… and still, Ridgewood Water keeps pumping POISON into our houses.